"The publication of this volume has been supervised by Professor Dr. Klaus Koschorke. Printed with support of the Bertha Hess-Cohn Foundation, Basel."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Religio-scapes of prosperity gospel: an introduction. -- 1. Mapping prosperity gospel in politics and society. Political architecture of poverty: on changing patterns of "African identity" / Rainer Tetzlaff -- Pentecostal improvement strategies: a comparative reading on African and South American Pentecostalism / Jens Köhrsen -- An activist-holiness Kenneth Hagin? A case study of prosperity theology in the Philippines / Giovanni Maltese. -- 2. Embattled theology of prosperity. The prosperity theology of David Oyedepo, founder of Winners' Chapel / Paul Gifford -- "Jesus became poor so that we might become rich." A critical review of the use of biblical reference texts among prosperity preachers in Ghana / Werner Kahl -- "Struggling with Africa": theology of prosperity in and from Brazil / Rudolf von Sinner -- To prosper and to be blessed: prosperity, wealth and "life in abundance" in ecumenical debate / Michael Biehl. -- 3. Routing religio-scapes of prosperity. Battling spirits of prosperity: the "Pentecostalized" interreligious contest over money rituals in Ghana / Andreas Heuser -- Rhetoric and praxis of Ghanaian Salafi and Sufi Muslims: analogies with prosperity gospel / Seebaway Zakaria -- The ethics of wealth and religious pluralism in Burkina Faso: how prosperity gospel is influencing the current religious field in Africa / Katrin Langewiesche -- Gender dimensions of wealth and health in Ghanaian indigenous religious thinking: narratives of female clients of the Pemsan shrine / Genevieve Nrenzah -- Encountering "prosperity" gospel in nineteenth century Gold Coast: indigenous perceptions of western missionary societies / Abraham Nana Opare Kwakye -- Freemasonry, occult economies and prosperity in Tanzanian Pentecostal discourse / Päivi Hasu. -- 4. Enchanted Protestant ethic. "Now I dress well. Now I work hard" -- Pentecostalism, prosperity, and economic development in Cameroon / Tomas Sundnes Drønen -- Prosperity gospel of entrepreneurship in Africa and Black America: a pragmatist Christian innovation / David D. Daniels III -- Martin Luther, wealth and labor: the market economy's links to prosperity gospel / Chr. Lucas Zapf. -- 5. Sacred economy of exchange. A God trap: seed planting, gift logic, and the prosperity gospel / Yvan Droz and Yonatan N. Gez -- Are blessings for sale? ritual exchange, witchcraft allegations, and the de-alienation of money in Tanzanian prosperity ministries / Martin Lindhardt. -- 6. Diasporic (dis)illusions. Between gutter and Gucci, boss and Botho: a relocation of "prosperity gospel" by Nigerian Pentecostal Christians in Soweto, South Africa / Drea Fröchtling -- Missing prosperity: economies of blessings in Ghana and the diaspora / Jeanne Rey -- "With both feet in the air": prosperity gospel in African migrant churches in Switzerland / Daniel Frei.